[Python-Dev] Reintroduce or drop completly hex, bz2, rot13, ... codecs

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Wed Jun 9 14:18:44 CEST 2010


Le mercredi 09 juin 2010 10:41:29, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit :
> No, .transform() and .untransform() will be interface to same-type
> codecs, i.e. ones that convert bytes to bytes or str to str. As with
> .encode()/.decode() these helper methods also implement type safety
> of the return type.

What about buffer compatible objects like array.array(), memoryview(), etc.? 
Should we use codecs.encode() / codecs.decode() for these types?

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